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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE A^i ' ' II. I). NiU?n . . Fditor and Publluher Published every Friday at No. 1109 Hroad Street and entered at tfie Cam den, South Carolina, postoffice as o second class mail matter. Price per annum $2.00. Camden, 8. CH Friday, Sept. 4, 1923. V-*- i ? in h i; "V ?We are glad to note that there is a decided protest growing against the unfair competition of certain out of-town business firms coming into our city an.d trying to put local en terprises out of business. For several week* an out of town baking concern has put on n tremendous drive in an effort to place their products here thereby weakenings and discrediting the sale of toho local product. Many are handling this bread and many are calling for it unthoughtcdly, not thinking what it may ultimately load to. Set a precedent of this kind and no local institution can survive. Mr. Sanders and Mr. Drawdy havo in vested heavily in Camden ? -not only in tho baking industry but are largo Owners of Camden real estate. Thoy pay n genero>ui proportion of the taxes <>f t'he city and county, spend the money made on their products in Camden, and the large payroll of their concern goes back into the chan nels of trade. When you go into n local store ask for Camden made products and keep your money at . home." . l>ebtor and Creditor A man owed a good deal of money which he could not. pay. His cred itors had been lenient with him, be muse they. believed he had been in hard luck and was doing the best he could. ' But one afternoon one of his creditors, seated on the piazza of his home, saw the debtor drive by at rapid speed in a new automobile. The next day court proceedings were bogun and the creditor found himself, in very deep and hot water. . It is not necessarily disgraceful to owe money That you cannot pay. It i.ll depends upon the nature of the debt and the efforts you are making to pay it. Hut it is disgraceful to owe money and not pay it and at the same time use in luxury and riotous living the money which you owe your creditors.- ? Spartanburg Sim. There may have been several mur-j ? der cases before .South Carolina ju- 1 lies last week; but we happen to re member one, And remember also thiU ! the defendant was acquitted. We re member also of another man being 'turned out of the penitentiary after serving part of a short term for man slaughter. We arc not Haying that these men deserved death, as there were undoubtedly mitigating circum stances in both cases. We do venture the opinion, however, that the jury was entirely too light in both case#, and a term of from fifteen to twenty years for both of the.se parties would probably not have been far wrong. As it is, they are at liberty; the casos against them are dismissed; and the terrible off OCt that lack of punish ment for murder has upon the public at large is at work like leaven. Until the/ people of the United State*, courts, officials, and public, assume an entirely different attitude towards the taking of human life, the deadly loll will go right on, and it will be an every day matter to read in the papers of men shooting others down in cold blood, juries swayed by maud lin sympathy, courts being circum* vented by technicalities, and govern ors and pardon boards absolutely oblivious of the crime the convicted man was. guilty of, and concerned only about the "living and responsive solely to t.he appeals of t>he defense.} ? Chester Reporter^ Hiding Worthless Checks Commissioner McGowan, is author ity for the statement that hundreds of checks have been returned to the highway department marked "no good" issued by automobile owners in payment for license plates. Ar rests may follow, and it is sincerely hoped that he will prosecute any and all ol' them. Commenting on this situation the Columbia State >vell isays; "Nothing at this time would so quickly and substantially improve the moral health of South Carolina as the exposure and prosecution of writers of worthless checks. Although bank ers and other business men are aware that this larcenous habit ? ir .wide spread, apparently they are, as a vu le, wanting in the courage to carry cases to a judge and jury. "The profoundest need in South Carolina is bold truth-telling ? the kind that does not shrink from writ* j intf the name of a nice young man who ha? become an .habitual thief across the records of a court. When Samuel McGowan, chief highway commissioner, shall, in the pursuance of his duty, cause to be arrested even n few hundreds of the citizens who write chocks when they- have no money in bank, he will do the com monwealth * service greater than building h good road or a strong budge. "Dishonesty is common. Thousands of persons are spending money that they have not earned, that they do not i expect to earn, that they ?*re trying to steal from other people ? and the craving for money to buy gasoline and tires is ope great cause of this kind of theft. "We' South Carolinian.-, are, of course, hiding facts from ourselves. uWe are sotting down a great many things to hard luck which we know to have been our own fault. We know that many of tho i?mk failures in the last four years have boon in excusable, but we have not the least idea of hurting any one s foelings on that subject. We know thfct every banker knows that the bad checks are issued daily by thousands ? but we shall continue to deceive ourselves un less some agency that isn't afraid of shadows will speak for us. The state highway commission has given a sign. May it not hush till the last dishonest weakling's name shall be ; told, and ?some of the rascals sent to jail.". Oil for Tomorrow. A reassuring report as to supply of petroleum in the United States has been prepared by eleven directors of the American petroleum institute. It was made after country-wide survey by many operators and by experts and scientists and embraces estimates of future supply of and demand for petroleum. It refutes the idea that there is imminent danger. of exhaus tion of petroleum reserves qf the United States. It estimates petroleum recoverable by present methods of flowing ? and pumping from existing an^ acreage thus proved, to be 5,300,000, 000 barrels, and that after pumping and flowing cease there will remain in area now producing and proved 20,000,000,000" barrels of oil, a consid erable 7porfion of which can be recov ered by improved and known pro cesses. French courts have ruled that edi tors are compelled ^to print at full length replies from those Who have been attacked in the newspapers. The reply must be given the same position as the attack and may run to the same length. Card of ThttRkH We wish to take this opportunity to thank our friends and neighbors for nil sympathy mid kindness ex tended us in the loss of our loved one. May God add his richest blessing to each of you. T. N. Langley avnd Family. Th4 Wit-Headed Fool! A brand-new cauldron is reserved for the latest style of hupian fool? ? the man, who takes a risk in pass ing the ear in front of 'him on u crowded paved country highway. A pin-headed pie consumer will man age to struggle through the third grade at school and then quit be cause the multipHcation table is too much for bim, The simplest prob lems in mathematics are beyond him. He will ^then obtain a ear through somebody else's labor, take to the paved country highway, janvj on all the gas and proceed >tb tackle a problem in [differential calculus j with empty-headed give. There are usually four cars in the problem and they are a/11 gloving and all moving atf different speeds. It is possible for the fool to know the speed of i his own car, though he probably doesn't. He must guess at the speed of the two cars just ahead of him and^the speed of the car approaching. The fool isn't equipped mentally for gUessjng. He simply swiags off his own side of the road and takes the chances. Sense in the other three drivers usually saves "him and them. But Vfcni devil is waiting for him, nevertheless, and rubbing his hands with delight in anticipation of the hour of his reception. ? Vyichita Ragle. A telephone company on the Texas coast .during 24 hours after giving warning of an approaching hurricane, made "more than 100,000 connections for weather information. The old city of Athens is to be torn down and archeologists will ex cavate 25 feet beneath the surface in search of centuries of deposits. Forty American colleges plan to as sist in the expectation that the wprk will yield more important disclosures concerning classical civilization, hist qry and art than resulted from the excavations at Pompeii. When five of his flock of thirty pure-bred Buff Orpington* chickens died during a recent heat wave, a Milwaukee man attached an electric fan to the henhouse light socket and revived the other dying members oL his flock. (irviilut 11a II 1'litKr Suspended .New Yo^k, Aug. 80.--Babe Ruth, baseball's champion slugger of all time, picturesque idol of youthful mil lion* and the highest salaried player of the major leagues, tottered from hi* throne today. Indefinite suspension, and a fine of $5,000 imposed /it St, Louis by Man ager Miller Hugglntfof the New YorkJ Yankees, with a brief explanation that Ruth had been guilty of "mU conduct off the field," were the vehicles of?, the diamond king's descent. I Officials of the team here eould not be reached tonight in an effort to cant additional light on the circumstances leading to the punitive steps of Hug gins. Otfhor sources of baseball in formation in tho metropolis tyero without information and the general air of mystery was .penetrated ' only" by* a sense of depression among fol-' lowors of the diamond which has re-' suited from the almost complete co}-! lapse of the once powerful Yankee team and the losing fight of the hap less Giartts to rotain the National league championship against the ag gressive Pittsburgh Pirate /machine, Japanese have inclosed nearly 7,000 Square mrles of Formosa with elec trified barbed- wiro entanglements to keep the "tamed" natives from- the "untamed." fm ? ? ? , , J. Notice to Debtors and Creditors All parties indebted to the estate of Harriet H. Lipscomb, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all parties, if any, having claims against/ the said estate will present thorn duly attested within the time prescribed -by law. HENRY G. CARRISON, Jrl Administrator Estate of Harriet. H. ' Lipscomb. Camden, S. C., September *3, 1925. Notice to Debtors and Creditors All parties indebted to the estate ; of Joseph Reed, deceased, are hereby notified to unake payment to" ttye^ undersigned; and all parties, if any, having claims against the said estate will present them duly attested with in the time prescribed by law. ? NETTIE GILBERT, Executrix, Of the Will of Joseph Reed. Camden, S. C., August 28fch, 1025. Notice of Application For Final Discharge. . Notico is hereby given that the un dersigned will; at ten o'clock A. M., on the fifth day of October, apply to the Probate Court for final discharge as guardian for Beatrice Esters and George Esters, Jr. J. W. BOYKIN, Guardian for George Esters, Jr. September 2nd, 1025. [Notice to Holder# of School Clai?M. ? A?? 4KT60P? holding school claim* n?g?1n?t Kershaw Count* are request vnl f,o preseht them at' the office 0f the Superlntendertt of Educatlop, ai (t ia desired to compile a complete list of all <$utvtandin? claims of ereiy imture. ^ TEAM GETTY S, gS.gb Supt. ?' fluent inn. Wants-For Sale BATTERIES? If it's a battery you need, buy WHlard. Batteries re /Charged and repaired. Broad Street Filling -Station, Telephone . |48, U. N. Myers, Proprietor, Cam den, S< C. s 23-tf FOB BALE ? One ten-horsepower atai>. tionary International gasoline en. cine, in perfect order. Appiy to Henry Savage, Camden, 8. C., or Jlonry Smyrl, Cantey, S. C. 23.25.8b FOR SALE IMMEDIATELY? Break. fast room suite, -mahogany be<j, re ; frigerator, oil stove. Telephone 3&8.J, Mrs. W. R. Barnett, Cam. den, S. C. 23- pd FOB SALfE?Two good milch cows. /v Apply to J'. H. Burns, Camden, S. C. V 23-sb. RADIO BATTERIES? Storage and dry batteries for your radio. Com plete vlino Prest-o-Hte and Colum bia batteries for automobiles. Has ty's Battery Service, DeKalb St.," Camden, S. C. 23-sb FOR ? RENT ? Three $; ftirni&hed rooms, comprising one bed room, one dining room and one kitchen . ette. Couple without children pre ferred. Call at Chronicle office, Camdeh, S. C. 22-24-sb FOR RENT? Furnished rooms, near ? school and Main street. Apply to 1214 Fair street. 2i-23pd FORD SERVICE ? We -handle genu ine Ford parts. Let us do your repair work. Experienced Ford me chanics. Mr. Joe Pettigr ew in > charge of repair shop. Broad Street Filling Station, Phone 443, U. N. Myers, Prop.. 15-sb WANTED ? No.'tfbplne logs. Highest " nash prices paid; year round de mand. Sumter Planing Milk , and Lumber Co., Attention E. S. Booth, Sumter, S. C. ? . 29-tf FOR SALE-^Lot best quality red six ' inch floor tile. See N. C. Arnett, Camden, S. C. 21-sb. WHY WAIT until winter to arrange for your milk sup ply when milk _Ja^ scarce? Give us a trial now or ask some of our customers. ? Quality and service is our motto. Call Lee's Market and ask (for our driver to call. Milk, cream, fresh eggs and .poultry At the mar ket. Lug off Dairy, Lugoff, S. C. 20-32pd No Woman thinks of preparing a meal without including bread. Maybe it is because bread is such an accepted part of the real meal that many folks fail to give careful thought to the need of having the best possible on their tables . Bread is a body builder. There is ho substitute for bread as a healthy food ? when it contains all of its natural qualities . r * v, - For Camden people ours has been the job of baking good bread ? scientifically studied out so that All its food values are retained . Raked in Camden fresh daily ? no bread could be better than EJjECTRIK MAU) BREAD. , :V I jL f L. i ? PASTRIES AND CAKES TOO! ELECTRIK MAID BAKE A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION